Live – Pale Blue Eyes at Dust – Breaking Glass Magazine

Pale Blue Eyes at Dust, Brighton, 11th April 2025

On the road with their latest album New Place, Pale Blue Eyes played to a packed venue at Brighton’s Dust on Friday night. You can’t fault their precision as they run through a selection of the new songs, interspersed with some welcome tracks from earlier records – Honeybear and Under Northern Sky sitting back to back, comfortably slotted between newer tunes Rituals and The Dreamer. The trio – Matt Board (guitar, vocals), Lucy Board (drums) and Aubrey Simpson (bass) are joined live by Lewis Kellett-Johnson on keys and additional guitar for an incredibly tight-knit set that feels reminiscent of Stereolab’s French Disko era. Often presented under the shoegaze mantle, it feels like their performance takes the genre and injects a huge bounce of energy, reflected back from the ever increasing head-nodding and foot-tapping throughout the crowd.

A great night’s entertainment, the band have a couple more dates to come this week at Oxford’s Bullingdon on Wednesday 16th April and Islington Assemble Hall in London on Thursday 17th April – get along if you can.

Set list:
Scrolling, TV Flicker, Rituals, Honeybear, Under Northern Sky, The Dreamer, Motionless, Our History, Our Lost Words, Now And Again, Chelsea, Sister, Half Light